Posada del Puruay
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Cajamarca - where Atahualpa Inca got killed
Finally we managed to get to Cajamarca. (We tried to get here before we went to Ecuador but the area was a bit unsafe due to demonstrations against the new Conga project, a new gold mine in the area that is very controversion due to environmental issues).
This city is a very attractive colonial city - lots of the houses in the centre have been beautifully restored. We spent the first day walking round the historical centre with a guide. We went up on the Cerro Apolonia to get ...
Bathing like an Incan King
... You could see them boiling and the steam was pouring off all of them. The bottoms were a rusty red/orange colour and it certainly didn't look fit for human habitation. The grounds were lovely with lots of grass and flowers, interspersed with steaming hot pools and fountains spurting hot water. The archaeological star of the show, dated 1525, was the hot-tub that Atahuncalpa, an Incan King, once washed his war wounds during a battle against the Spanish. ...
Locals
... and once again they wanted photos with me, each in turn.
This is such a different experience and something you don't get going to
the traditional tourist places where it's only internationals. Here a
gringo was someone to talk to and get photos with!
Next up was a short walk to a waterfall, although it got everyone
struggling for breath! We were only 2300m up, but the real highlight was
yet ...
Visiting Mountain Communities
... had some soup and potatoes for dinner before crashing. The next day we were up at 5:45am to meet our driver and drive back to San Marcos to visit another community. The rest of the trip went ok, the communitiy we were going to visit was rebuilding their school in a new location so we decided it make sense for us to do an installation until the new school was built, but on the way back we were chased down on motorbike by the president of the nearby ...
Een warm ontvangst in Peru
... The trader then sells the goods to a wholesaler who passes on the dirt road with a truck once a week to visit all his supplier along the route. Of course there are also people that try to sell their goods themselveseach week on the local markets. We see often all beasts of burden parks near the market. They are patiently waiting for all they have to carry back up again back home high in the mountains. These animals do no have nice leather saddles. Mostly we see ...
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